Inaccurate Predictions Are Illegal.

       Whatever you do, don't let any state legislatures, anywhere in the country, hear about the latest court ruling in Italy. It seems a judge there has found seven scientists guilty of not knowing what would happen in the future. Before the April 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila in central Italy, in which 309 people died, theses scientists had predicted, based on sound science, that there would be no quake. So now they're guilty of manslaughter.
       Can you imagine a state like Florida and all the others that have stand your ground laws, hearing about this? It might turn out to be a case of standing your ground and the stander dies. And then the one who didn't predict it gets a prison sentence. In Italy, scientists are already quitting their jobs with the government over this ruling.  Here in America I can see police getting in trouble every day. By not predicting the local bank would get robbed today, the cops get a ten year stretch in the local state prison. Or how about not predicting that someone would die in a shootout with a dangerous criminal? The criminal is dead, but the cops get life.
       The possibilities for change are limitless. I'll bet that thoughtful state legislatures across the country could find ways to get nearly anyone. What's that you say, you were in a fender-bender? Don't you think you should have known it would have happened? Even if you were in the store at the time? You should have known not to park in that preferred slot at the far end of the parking lot. Doctor you predicted my husband might live as long as two more days but he just died. You are guilty of manslaughter. My lawyer assured me I could win this case against an intruder even though I invited him in and then shot him in the back, with witnesses. So my lawyer will be my cellmate. Well, okay, maybe this one is fair.
       The point to all this is that our legislators, at least on the state level, are all too willing to think up stupid things and then enact them into law. Come to think of it so is our Congress. But don't quote me on this. It is not a prediction.